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Tony BarrettSt Petersburg

Last updated at 12:01AM, February 14 2013

Brendan Rodgers has stopped short of saying he will take Liverpool off the
pitch if their black players are abused in tonight’s Europa League tie away
to Zenit St Petersburg, instead placing the onus on Uefa and the match
officials to deal with any incidents of racism.

Rodgers insisted he had no qualms about naming Glen Johnson, Andre Wisdom and
Raheem Sterling in the squad that travelled to Russia yesterday, despite the
notorious reputation of the Landscrona supporters’ group that recently
published a manifesto calling for non-Europeans to be kept out of the club.